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DeLay and Frist make history
"The fact that Tom DeLay is under criminal indictment and Senate majority leader Bill Frist is under criminal investigation is a historic first," says Melanie Sloan of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). "This demonstrates the culture of corruption among the Congressional leadership that has become a cancer on our country." Read more in" The Hammer Gets Hit". Or see what Arianna Huffington has to say about "the crowd that was going to 'restore honor and integrity' to Washington".
Sub $100 laptop
A computer for developing nations. Particularly cool is the hand crank power supplement.
Is DeLay the Tipping Point?
With this latest scandal, will the public finally be fed up of the corruption and misdealings of the Republicans in power?
Indicted
Tom DeLay ranted about his innocence and blamed his troubles on a partisan fanatic. Partisan fanaticism is certainly something DeLay knows a lot about. With DeLay under indictment, Frist under investigation by the SEC and Rove's leak coming back to the news, the so-called moral high ground is shaky for the Republicans.
Bullchip Toss on the White House Lawn
A game that lets you see how successful you might be at media manipulation.
Floats
An odd yet somewhat addictive online game.
Movies Suggested
Several movies have been reviewed and are on the suggested movies list. Take a look at what people have to say or add your own listing.
IMDB Top 250
An interesting listing of the top 250 movies as selected by IMDB visitors. It's interesting to note the relative lack of Oscar winners among them.
Gmail widget
Get a cool widget for OSX Tiger that notifies you of new Gmail messages.
New Stella Pictures
In celebration of reaching the two month mark, Stella has a lot of new photos to show.
Suggest a Movie
Introducing a new feature on the site: movies reviewed by site visitors for site visitors. Become an integral part of a collective project. Your movie knowledge may help someone out on their next visit to the video store. Have you seen something terrific that you think others will enjoy? Maybe you blew good money on an over-hyped flop. Send your suggestion.
Why Cheap Gas is a Bad Habit
In the wake of a sharp spike in fuel prices following Hurrican Katrina, we should learn from past mistakes. We can't afford to continue to drive huge, gas-guzzling cars.
How Bush Blew it
Near illiteracy, a lack of imagination and a crowd of yes men finally add up to trouble for Bush.
FEMA Director Brown Resigns
Didn't Bush say his pal "Brownie" was doing "a heckuva job"? With that sort of praise, it's surprising that an incompetent crony would jump ship so readily. A couple of questions now come to mind: How long will it be before Brownie resurfaces as a lobbyist for Kellog, Brown and Root? And how will Karl Rove pin all the mistakes on the outgoing Brown and the Democrats while finding an equally unqualified replacement?
Robbing the public trust again
The Bush administration has hired the usual suspects, cronies and aligned business interests such as Halliburton to lead the post Katrina cleanup. Big surprise.
Bush Pleads for national unity in wake of Katrina
He just doesn't get it. The nation IS united in its efforts to aid victims of Katrina. It just isn't united when it comes to believing his feeble excuses and attempts to shift blame away from himself. For Bush, the buck stops elsewhere.
“George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People” MP3
A song, remixed by The Legendary K.O. Download the song for free before The Man takes it down.
Powell comes clean
Colin Powell calls his deceptive presentation to the U.N. prior to the invasion of Iraq a permanent "blot" on his record.
FEMA packed with Bush's pals
It seems that FEMA Director Michael Brown is not the only incompetent crony that the Bush administration has seated into a position of responsibility at FEMA. At least the top three at that organization are hacks from the Bush campaign. Bush is certainly keeping America safe, one crony at a time.
Cheney was house hunting
After being wherebouts unknown and even rumored as being dead, Dick Cheney's conspicuous absence last week in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was finally explained. During the hurricane itself and afterwards as stranded people were dying, Uncle Dick vacationed in Jackson Hole, and hunted for a new $2.9 million waterfront estate in Chesapeake Bay.
Robertson is at it again
Radical right-wing nut Pat Robertson is at it again, showing his compassionate conservativism by praising Hurricane Katrina for shifting the focus away from the confirmation of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Maybe if there's another hurricane, the radical right can squeeze Robertson himself into the court.
Bush: "No one could have predicted the levee would breach."
No one, that is, except for the likes of that hotbed of tree-huggery, U.S. News and World Report on July 18, 2005.
The "city" of Louisiana, by Keith Olbermann
Keith ends a self imposed period of editorial silence with a tremendous editorial.
Barbara Bush: Let them eat cake
It seems that the grand dame of compassionate conservativism slipped up by voicing her real opinion about those her son is "helping".
While referring to the evacuees at the Houston Astrodome, the First Mommy said "And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (she chuckled)--this is working very well for them." Hear it for yourself.
Uh, which Charleston?
FEMA delivers a planeload of Louisiana Evacuees to the right city, wrong state.
Why not conserve?
Conserving gasoline is the least expensive, easiest to implement method to provide quick relief from the curent fuel crisis. So why is the government not advocating conservation?
Gilligan dead at 70
Bob Denver, known for his roles in 1960s sitcoms as beatnik Maynard G. Krebs on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis and most famously as Gilligan on Gilligan's Island has died.
Wallace and Gromit on the big screen
The first feature length film starring claymation characters Wallace and Gromit has premiered in Australia. The Curse of the Were-Rabbit has been five years in the making by director Nick Park.
From the New York Times, Sept. 2, 2005:
Waiting for a Leader
A Can't-Do Government
Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans
Mayor Nagin stands his ground and continues to fight for his city. During an interview he said that Federal officials didn't have a clue what was happening in the city.
OSx86 project
A hacked version of Apple's OS X has been running on a variety of standard PCs. The OSx86 project supports ongoing efforts to bring the Mac operating system to the PC world.
Fuel for a new generation
The next generation of cars may leave some older technologies behind.
Don't blame Bush, he was on vacation
Not surprisingly, Bush passes the buck when it comes to government responsibility of providing aid to victims of Hurricane Katrina. After cutting his record breaking, five-week long vacation short by two days, he is now saying that aid is "surging" to the area, five days after the catastrophe. Mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin angrily disagrees with the amount of help his city has received saying, "People are dying here." The aid that Bush claims is on its way is too little and too late for those who have died or are about to die. Too little, too late seems to be the Bush administration mantra when it comes to disaster aid.
Venezuela, a country with whom the U.S. has poor relations; a country whose president recently received a death threat from one of Bush's cronies, pledged to send aid before any commitment from Washington. Even Fidel Castro's communist Cuba expressed their sympathy for the victims of Katrina by observing a minute of silence. The silence from the Bush administration has lasted much longer than that. Although this disaster was not caused by an act of terror, it is likely that it is of the scale that the Department of Homeland Security was supposed to have been assembled to manage. What has become of all of the money spent, all of the departmental readjustments and appointments of directors, all of the alleged effort that has gone into making the "homeland" more secure?
If this disaster had indeed been caused by an act of terror, don't doubt for an instant that things would be different. Bush would be on the ground, positioned by his handlers with his shirtsleeves rolled up, steadfast under an American flag rising from the rubble. Posing with a disheveled child in front of the cameras he might say something like, "We're gonna get the killer what done this to ya and make 'im pay." Unfortunately a hurricane can't be wrangled by Texas-style justice, nor can it be confined to a cell in Guantanamo Bay.
At the very least, since many of the major oil refining facilities of the country have been disabled, one would think this oil-obsessed administration would be in some way moved to action. As supply falls and fuel prices rise, a lot of drivers, maybe even the most irresponsible drivers on the road will mutiny against their SUVs and the dealers pushing them in Detroit. It is even possible that people will realize the unsustainable position that the country is in regarding energy policy and vote with their dollars for more efficient solutions. Perhaps this, instead of Hurricane Katrina, is the true disaster the Bush administration is currently facing. At this very moment, Karl Rove is probably devising some way to blame Katrina on Iran so that an invasion of that country would be "justified" for the good of the administration's constituents: multinational oil and automobile interests.
New Stella photos
Stella makes a trip to the office.
Satellite photos of New Orleans
CNN has photos of the city from space.
Fats Domino missing after hurricane
The rock 'n roll legend may be all right, but he has not been heard from since Monday.
Blogging New Orleans
Brendan Loy is a New Orleans blogger who continues to issue updates concerning the harrowing aftermath of the storm in New Orleans.
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